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2013/08/12

Week3- Project1

This pill box contains one kind of capsules at the top and another kind of capsules at the bottom . The shape is designed to fit hand ergonomically. You slide the lid to take out the pill. The magnitude of the hole allows only one pill to be taken out.

The material for this pill box is LDPE.

2013/08/05

Week2 - Project 1 Reflection

This week, i chose hand tremor from the disabled market because Parkinson' s disease is very common in our life and finding a way to help the parkinson's patients is very necessary and urgent.

I generated three concepts which are water bottle, detergent and pill box.

Here are the suggestions from my tutor Tom and two peers Zhaozhao li and Olivia Qiu yuan Lin.

The first concept is a sports water bottle because parkinson's patients are always feel thirsty during the night. There is a tube in the middle and you can slide it to lock and unlock. However, it's no difference from the current water bottle and not obvious to solve the problem of hand tremor.

The second concept is the detergent. You push to the right and a cup of detergent will fall down.

It can work for top load washing machine and the detergent can not be everywhere even for the hand tremor person. However, it is not designed for the front load washing machine.

The third concepts, you shake the bottle the pills will come out but you can not let just have one pill at one time. The second pill box is a pull up and down mechanism but it seems too complex.

Finally, i will go the third concept- pill box and think about this further...

2012/05/28

Project 3- a sense of place

Figure1: a corner of the Moore Park

Project Three: a sense of place

According to the brief, my challenge is to create an innovative public furniture element which helps give the public space its “sense of place” and “sense of belongingness”. It should also provide a linkage between people, prompt strangers to talk to other strangers as if they know each other.

My design is a table setting is made up of four seats and one table, which is designed to be used in the park. The identified park I found it’s called Moore park- a large area in the eastern suburbs of Sydney (Figure 1).

Advantages:

My design is accessible. It is suitable for every person including elderly, children and disabled people. The space under the seat is for putting feet and goods. The round table at the centre is also available for putting things on.

Compared to the existing chair in the park, my design let more people sit together and people can choose to sit in different directions for seeing different angles of beautiful views. The angle between two chairs is 90 degree that it is convenient and comfortable for people to chat instead of sitting side by side.

The material of final design is anti-corrosive pine wood which is cheap, commonly used for outdoor furniture and can give people the feeling of nature.

Poster: